Parker on Board with Rest Plan

LOS ANGELES — Being no doctor, Spurs point guard Tony Parker declined to join the debate raging throughout Southern California about whether the Los Angeles Lakers’ chronic overuse of Kobe Bryant contributed to the star guard’s season-ending injury.
Parker, 30, steadfastly believes, however, that coach Gregg Popovich’s micromanagement of his veterans’ minutes has added years to the back end of his career, and those of Tim Duncan, 36, and Manu Ginobili, 35.